?So­cial ac­tivist and leader of the group One Peo­ple, One Voice In­shan Ish­mael said the group was in no way protest­ing when they were con­front­ed by po­lice at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah Sun­day night. Speak­ing to CNC3 Sun­day, Ish­mael said the group had just re­turned from a meet­ing and de­cid­ed to stop at the Pad­dock to get food and to dis­cuss the day's ac­tiv­i­ties. One Peo­ple, One Voice had ear­li­er gath­ered at the Help­ing Hands grounds in St Au­gus­tine for a ral­ly.

He said min­utes af­ter the group ar­rived at the sa­van­nah, a heav­i­ly-tint­ed ve­hi­cle pulled up and he no­ticed a man with a ma­chine gun in­side. Ish­mael said the group be­came con­cerned as they did not know if the ve­hi­cle was that of the po­lice or crim­i­nals as the oc­cu­pants in­side did not iden­ti­fy them­selves. Ish­mael said soon af­ter­ward a con­tin­gent of po­lice and army of­fi­cers ar­rived on the scene and told the group they "were con­cerned with us be­ing here."